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ludoo
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 Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:07 pm Post subject: Olympus 35S-II |
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ludoo wrote:
Just got it back from restoration, my repairman performed a miracle and resurrected this beautiful little rangefinder and its 7-element G.Zuiko from the dead: the shutter and speed selectors were frozen solid, the framelines window broken, the film advance springs were either broken or missing, and the lens was encrusted with dirt and with a very stiff focus. It's not mint, but now it's a fully functional and smooth user camera.
It feels great in my hands, I can't wait to shoot a roll with it. |
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mo
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:02 am Post subject: |
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mo wrote:
Nice to keep these little cameras in working order  Any sample photos coming?
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ludoo
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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ludoo wrote:
| Mo-Fo wrote: |
| Nice to keep these little cameras in working order Any sample photos coming? |
Sure, there's a roll of Rollei Retro 100 already loaded, but I'll have to wait for my Plustek scanner to come back from repairs before I post something. |
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Attila
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Wow! Congrats! Samples please......... no B&W LOL.
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djmike
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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djmike wrote:
It seems you got a tresuare. Yes, photo sample, please. Mike
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ludoo
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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ludoo wrote:
| Attila wrote: |
| Wow! Congrats! Samples please......... no B&W LOL. |
Heh, shooting color means having to go to the minilab for development and scanning, lots of time and quite a bit of money.  On the other hand, I have quite a few Fuji Reala and some Pro800Z in the fridge and I might as well use them sometimes. |
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Attila
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Attila wrote:
Okay, if inconvenience for you B&W just fine.
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ludoo
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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ludoo wrote:
It took me one month and a half, but I finally managed to shoot a roll with the Oly. In the meantime, it's such a nice little camera that I have a second one I got from Japan lying in parts in a box, waiting for a couple of hours before being reassembled, and a third one coming from Japan. They are uber-rare here but pretty common in Japan, where ones needing some restoration work can be found for peanuts.
The roll is Rollei Retro 100 shot at 160 asa and developed in hc-110, dilution D (1+39, 6ml for a steel tank's 240ml) for 9 minutes at 19 deg C, 3 slow agitations per minute. Negatives are a bit flat, which might be ok for printing with an enlarger but less so for scanning, so I will probably increase development time and/or agitation next time.
The camera feels wonderful in my hands, it's small but very solid. The viewfinder is crystal clear with brilliant framelines, with automatic parallax correction (they move while you focus, something very few fixed-lens rangefinders do). I used a metal vented hood on the lens, I always use them but today there was a bright spring sun and a hood was mandatory. I will next shoot a roll of color film or slides, as shooting with a DSLR has spoiled me and b&w seems boring lately.
No great variety of subjects, but I wanted to finish the roll and look at the results, plus my daughter has always been my favourite subject.
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Attila
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Looks to me a very capable camera. Excellent!
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Nesster
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:06 am Post subject: |
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Nesster wrote:
If it feels good to use and gives such nice results, what's not to like!
Congrats and thank you for the nice presentation of this camera. Seems the lens/film/developer combo gives a really long greyscale... not everybody likes this look, but I find it excellent (and vintage looking)
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:48 am Post subject: |
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fish4570 wrote:
beautiful shots. your daughter needs no flattery, but the gray scale does so anyway ...
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:12 am Post subject: |
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Orio wrote:
I love the shadow-and-light play in the first one, and the look of the mother in the second one.
Both special photos to keep.
+1 on the grey tones. Old-fashioned in a non-mimicking way.
Great work and congrats on the beautiful camera.
And thanks for sharing the developing details.
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martinsmith99 wrote:
You are lucky to have a good repairman. I'm unable to find one here.
B&W boring?????? 
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mo
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mo wrote:
Love the look in #2 is your daughter eating one of those sour lollie straps that kids love so much?
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ludoo
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:52 am Post subject: |
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ludoo wrote:
Nesster, fish, Orio, thanks for the nice comments. A wide and smooth tonal range is probably the best characteristic of Agfa APX100 / Rollei Retro 100 film developed in Rodinal or hc-110. I use hc-110 as I find it slightly more contrasty than Rodinal and with less variations. And since the Rollei film costs 1.20€ a roll, it's a no brainer.
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| You are lucky to have a good repairman. I'm unable to find one here. |
His repairs are also really cheap, and he now works by mail only since he retired late last year. He used to be the tech head of the local Zeiss repair center in the '60s, and he has a huge experience with most cameras ad lenses. If you need his cotnact details just send me a PM, registered (signed-for) mail from/to the UK is reliable, reasonably fast and not too expensive.
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| B&W boring?????? |
Heh yes. Strange but true, shooting a DSLR (with mf lenses ofc) has spoiled me: a picture with no colors now seems to be lacking something. And most of the time an affectation, a mannerism, especially digital b&w.
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| Love the look in #2 is your daughter eating one of those sour lollie straps that kids love so much? |
Yes, she loves them. In pic #1 the white streaks next to her mouth are not scratches on the negative, but dried up toothpaste.
BTW Orio, if you want to try a couple of rolls of Retro 100 just give me a shout and I'll send you an envelope. |
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